People
CODES Director
Position: Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Head of Division of Systems Engineering, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
cgc@bu.edu https://christosgcassandras.org/
Current Students
Position: Ph.D. candidate of Systems Engineering (2018)
jqueeney@bu.edu
Position: Ph.D. candidate of Systems Engineering (2019)
xky@bu.edu
Position: Ph.D. candidate of Systems Engineering (2019)
aschavez@bu.edu
Position: Ph.D. candidate of Systems Engineering (2020)
esabouni@bu.edu
Position: Ph.D. candidate of Systems Engineering (2020)
anlianni@bu.edu
Position: Ph.D. candidate of Systems Engineering (2021)
sabbir92@bu.edu
Recent Graduated Students
| Salomón Wollenstein | Ph.D. | 2022 | Estimation and optimization methods for transportation networks |
| Wei Xiao | Ph.D. | 2021 | Optimal control and learning for safety-critical autonomous systems |
| Shirantha Welikala | Ph.D. | 2021 | Overcoming local optima in control and optimization of cooperative multi-agent systems |
| Rui Chen | Ph.D. | 2020 | Control and Optimization Methods for Problems in Intelligent Transportation Systems |
| Arian Houshmand | Ph.D. | 2020 | Eco-routing and Scheduling of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles |
| Rebecca Swaszek | Ph.D. | 2019 | Fleet Load Balancing Strategies for Shared Mobility-On-Demand Systems |
| Nan Zhou | Ph.D. | 2019 | Cooperative Control for Multi-Agent Persistent Monitoring Problems |
| Yue Zhang | Ph.D. | 2019 | Methods in Intelligent Transportation Systems Exploiting Vehicle Connectivity, Autonomy and Roadway Data. |
| Xinmiao Sun | Ph.D. | 2017 | Static and Dynamic Optimization Problems in Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems |
| Sepideh Pourazarm | Ph.D. | 2017 | Control and Optimization Approaches for Energy-Limited Systems: Applications to Wireless Sensor Networks and Battery-Powered Vehicles |
| Julia Lima Fleck | Ph.D. | 2016 | Topics in Perturbation Analysis for Stochastic Hybrid Systems |
| Yasaman Khazaeni | Ph.D. | 2016 | An Event-Driven Approach to Control and Optimization of Multi-Agent Systems |
| Xuchao Lin | Ph.D. | 2014 | Optimal Control Approaches for Persistent Monitoring Problems |
| Yanfeng Geng | Ph.D. | 2013 | Control and Optimization Approaches for Power Management in Energy-Aware Battery-Powered Systems |
| Tao Wang | Ph.D. | 2013 | Optimization Methods for Intelligent Transportation Systems in Urban Settings |
| Ali Kebarighotbi | Ph.D. | 2012 | Scheduling, Optimization and Perturbation Analysis in Stochastic Hybrid Systems |
| Chen Yao | Ph.D. | 2011 | Perturbation Analysis, Optimization and Resource Contention Games in Stochastic Hybrid Systems |
| Minyi Zhong | Ph.D. | 2010 | Distributed Control and Optimization in Energy Limited Cooperative Systems |
| Xu Ning | Ph.D. | 2009 | Control and Optimization Approaches for Power Management in Wireless Sensor Networks |
| Jianfeng Mao | Ph.D. | 2008 | Dynamic Energy Management in Resource Limited Systems with Real-Time Constraints |






